News item | 29-09-2023 | 3:00 PM
The provisional assistance budgets for 2024 and the final assistance budgets for 2023 have been published. Municipalities pay benefits for social assistance recipients and wage cost subsidies from these budgets. The files with budgets per municipality and a specification file are included as appendices to this message.
Provisional macro budget 2024
The provisional macro budget for 2024 is €6,958.5 million. The provisional 2024 budget for general assistance benefits and IOAW and IOAZ benefits is approximately €208.7 million higher than the final budget provided for these schemes for 2023. Due to the growth of the LKS target group, the provisional LKS budget for 2024 is €91.7 million higher than the final LKS budget for 2023. On balance, the provisional macro budget for 2024 is €300.4 million higher than the final macro budget for 2023.
Final macro budget 2023
The final macro budget for 2023 is €6,656.8 million. This macro budget has been set approximately €643.2 million higher than the provisional macro budget for 2023 (which was estimated at €6,013.7 million). This is due to the fact that the Statutory Minimum Wage has been increased by 10.15% as of January 1, 2023. The final macro budget for 2023 is €635.2 million higher than the final macro budget for 2022 (which was €6,021.6 million).
Further explanations of the provisional macro budget 2024 and the final macro budget 2023 are included as appendices to this message.
Budget tool
The interactive online budget tool for social assistance budgets is available. The tool provides numerical insight into the preparation of budgets at municipal level. Within this tool, a short report with an explanation of the most important figures is also available for each individual municipality.
Go to the budget tool.